Conflict and cuts in funding have left World Food Programme ‘taking from the hungry to feed the starving’ Conflict and cuts in funding have left World Food Programme ‘taking from the hungry to feed the starving’ The continuing US-Israel war on Iran has compounded other global disasters to drive record numbers of people into hunger at a time when funding to combat famine has fallen dramatically, the head of the UN World Food Programme has said. The WFP says 363 million people around the world